Thank you, Poppy4, for clarifying Train's comment about "'Enable Install on Demand". I performed the procedure as you described.

Crunchie, thanks for the link about the Stinger app. I downloaded it and let it run. Interestingly, it did not report any viruses etc. found/repaired/healed etc. However, not knowing what to think, I had my usual a.v. run a scan again, and all of the viruses were gone.

I think Stinger is great, I just wish it would list what it found and what it did with each item.

One item that is still plaguing me is someone's stupid little "EliteBar" toolbar, with buttons for "Premium Sites", "Online Dating", "Online Casinos", "Adult Content Sites", "Online Drugs" and "Virus Scan" (I bet their a.v. doesn't report their own malware :P ) OK .... Stinger killed the viruses, my a.v. now shows nothing, SpyBot S&D did its job (only found 6 items), and everything seems to be clean. Why is MSIE still getting this stupid "EliteBar" ?

Also, every time I now come to VirtualDr., there is a separate window on the left side labeled "Search Bar" at the top left and an "X" to close with on the top right. This window and top bar are the same greyish color as the rest of MSIE etc. (excluding the top blue bar) ... then the next item down is a medium blue bar labeled "Related Searches". I wouldn't go into so much detail, but I never saw that come up before, until I had these virus problems.

Well, I think I've probably set a record for posts in one day and bored some people to tears, so I'd better quit.

Unless something new happens, I'll sit it out and see if anyone has any comments (besides telling me to shut my yap ... heheh).

- Dave